Week of 2026-05-18

Hey y'all. I'm ill so the brain's working slow. I'll make the usual attempt to keep the notes short.

It helps that I've only got one thing to talk about this week.

USBC Prep

My lovely spouse Morgan has a problem an unstoppable desire to win the World Barista Championship . It doesn't help that I told her that we can't get a third cat until she wins.

She came thiiiiiiiis close in 2022, placing 2nd after winning the US Barista Championship to qualify for the world stage. If the idea of a barista competition is baffling to you, I don't blame you. That same year, Morgan made an effort to document her process . The videos are a bit old now, but they're still informative.

Outside of the one year I livestreamed all of her routines, I'm not typically involved. This year, I made a bargain with her: I could get a new 3D printer—the massive Bambu Labs H2D —in return for helping build her set designs.

So, that's what I've been up to: CADing prototypes in Shapr3D, then printing them out in PETG.

Above is a sneak preview of some of the prototyping that I've done. I'm just about ready to freeze the physical components, but I still have electrical work to do. I won't reveal too much, but the final effect should be very cool—I'll post a video to Bluesky when everything is put together.

This has dominated my week. We're sprinting to the finish, because the USBC is mid-June in Denver. Morgan needs the parts done because she needs to practice with them, and I have some travel coming up which means I need to work fast.

Poetry

The other thing I did this week was launch a new Leaflet publication that I'm treating as a micropoetry journal. I've already written a bunch of words about this, so I'll just link to those below. I'd love it if you subscribed!

Speaking of travel, I'll be up in Seattle at the start of next week for CascadiaJS, so I'm not sure I'll have weekly notes. I'll be hanging out with @brittanyellich.com , @vvill.dev , and others. I expect it'll be a great time!

Okay, I'm gonna go rest now. I need to be in functioning shape to play Subnautica 2 this evening.

Thanks for reading, as always. I hope you have a great week!